Advanced Zone Attributes; About Zone-Based Traffic Priority; Configuring Zone-Based Traffic Priority - HP Cisco MDS 9020 - Fabric Switch Configuration Manual

Advanced Zone Attributes

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Advanced Zone Attributes
This section describes advanced zone attributes and includes the following topics:
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About Zone-Based Traffic Priority

The zoning feature provides an additional segregation mechanism to prioritize select zones in a fabric
and set up access control between devices. Using this feature, you can configure the Quality of Service
(QoS) priority as a zone attribute. You can assign the QoS traffic priority attribute to be high, medium,
or low. By default, zones with no specified priority are implicitly assigned a low priority. See the
Versus Zone-Based QoS" section on page 56-6
To use this feature, you need to obtain the ENTERPRISE_PKG license (see
Installing
page
This feature allows SAN administrators to configure QoS in terms of a familiar data flow identification
paradigm. You can configure this attribute on a zone-wide basis rather than between zone members.
If zone-based QoS is implemented in a switch, you cannot configure the interop mode in that VSAN.
Caution

Configuring Zone-Based Traffic Priority

To configure the zone priority, follow these steps:
Command
Step 1
switch# config t
Step 2
switch(config)# zone name QosZone vsan 2
switch(config-zone)#
Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
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About Zone-Based Traffic Priority, page 23-18
Configuring Zone-Based Traffic Priority, page 23-18
Configuring Default Zone QoS Priority Attributes, page 23-19
About Broadcast Zoning, page 23-20
Configuring Broadcast Zoning, page 23-20
About LUN Zoning, page 23-21
Configuring a LUN-Based Zone, page 23-22
Assigning LUNs to Storage Subsystems, page 23-22
About Read-Only Zones, page 23-23
Configuring Read-Only Zones, page 23-23
Licenses") and you must enable QoS in the switch (see the
56-5).
Chapter 23
for more information.
"About Data Traffic" section on
Purpose
Enters configuration mode.
Configures an alias name (QosZone) and
enters zone configuration submode.
OL-16184-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Configuring and Managing Zones
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Chapter 3, "Obtaining and